The writing whirlwind that is Carol Wyer has already come up with five novels in the past 18 months, beginning with Little Girl Lost and reaching the latest publication, The Chosen Ones, all featuring Staffordshire DI Robyn Carter. Get Killer on the Wall on Amazon Carol Wyer Last year’s release, The Killer on the Wall, was well received and she’s currently working on a non-crime novel – but let’s hope we can welcome Kavanagh back into the fold soon.

Her assault on our minds began back in 2014 with Falling, a book with a well-used backdrop – the aftermath of a plane crash – and her standalones have continued to entertain and bemuse her growing legion of fans ever since.

Get Close to Home on Amazon Emma Kavanaghįormer police psychologist Kavanagh has the inside line on which buttons to press to grab the reader’s attention and never let go. Don’t expect Morse’s Oxford here, Hunter’s version is less dreaming spires, more nightmare scenarios! Cara Hunter is the pen name for an established novelist who is keeping their identity under wraps… ooh, we love a mystery! Hunter sets her novels in Oxford, where she lives and she specialises in creating believable characters handling seemingly ordinary situations – until a killer twist appears. They arrived on the scene late last year in Close to Home and will be returning in July with a new book entitled In The Dark. She’s as bright and sparkly as a new pin, but Cara Hunter and her creation DI Adam Fawley are being tipped for great things. It’s been a tough call to narrow the list down to 10, but here goes, in no particular order…ĭeadlier than the male? Many of our readers would say they most definitely are. We decided to bring you a list of the best new women authors to have emerged in the UK over last three or four years. But since Crime Fiction Lover launched in 2011, one of the most exciting things we’ve witnessed is the arrival of a new generation of British women whose writing is deadly and whose books are hitting our Recommended page with regularity. Names like Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and PD James will always spring to mind, and Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves might well be the reigning queens of crime. Women may be battling the glass ceiling in many professions, but in the world of crime writing they’ve shattered it with all manner of sharp implements.

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